He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Balrothery In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Balrothery
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Balrothery To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Balrothery
If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Balrothery Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Balrothery
"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Balrothery "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Balrothery
"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Balrothery All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Balrothery
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Balrothery None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Balrothery
He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Balrothery There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Balrothery
In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Balrothery Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Balrothery
Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Balrothery Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Balrothery
As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Balrothery Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Balrothery
My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Balrothery Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Balrothery
